PJ Harvey Announces First North American Tour in 7 Years, Shares New “Seem an I” Video By Matthew StraussFebruary 26, 2024 News PJ Harvey Announces Tour, Shares Video for New Song “I Inside the Old I Dying” By Evan MinskerJune 7, 2023 News PJ Harvey Returns With New Album I Inside...
Harvey, who was born in Corscombe, near Yeovil, England, on October 9, 1969, to countercultural parents in rural England, appears to have grown up with a sense of rock as just another natural force within the countryside. For example, “Sheela-na-gig,” a hit from her first album, D...
White Chalk, Harvey has retired the seething yowl that was once her signature, replacing it with whatever high trills, strained cries, and utterly unlikely expressions she can squeeze from her upper register. During the recording sessions forI Inside the Old Year...
This is Harvey’s first album to experiment with saxophones, and the mournful sound of those instruments, always muted and forlorn, is one of its biggest identifiers. They’re one of many examples of traditionally masculine devices tamped down into dejected futility. On “Last Living Rose,” t...
Reissue on vinyl of the first PJ Harvey studio album in the Island Records catalogue, and her second studio album. Produced by Steve Albini and originally released in May 1993, Rid Of Me features the singles ‘50ft Queenie’ and ‘Man-Size’. The album charted at number 3 in the UK. ...
PJ Harvey Sets First U.S. Live Appearance in Six Years Artist plans "I Inside the Old Year Dying: Poetry, Conversation, Music" event in Brooklyn for next month Poetry in Motion By Kory Grow PJ Harvey's New Album Packs a Dramatic Punch, If You Listen Deep ...
PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter whose mythically pitched, fanatically intense recordings and concerts set new standards for women in rock. Her notable albums included Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and Let England Shake, which both won
The album’s key personnel—chiefly, her one-time bandmate John Parish and the Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey—would become her most frequent and important collaborators over the ensuing decades, and To Bring You My Love reads like a road map of where they would later go. The opening title track...
PJ Harvey grew up in Dorset, near the Somerset border. She speaks in a West Country accent, but doesn’t sing with one. This presents an interesting dilemma for her first album in seven years.I Inside the Old Year Dyingis based on her book of narrative poems,Orlam, published to acclaim...
“Getting back to the political question,” PJ Harvey told an interviewer in 1992, the year she released her first albumDry, “I feel uncomfortable with myself at the moment because I feel I’m neglecting that side. I’m not concerned enough about things. I seem to be getting caught...